We use it on our chickens. we put the powder in an old stocking and poof them with it. We have also put it in the dirt where they like to dust themselves
Is anyone making their own food and saving money over buying feed from the store? I have room to plant different plants that i would need, but i was wondering is it a big cost savings, is it worth the trouble? Right now we are buying about one hundred pounds of feed a week.
It is pretty normal for newbies to lay soft shelled eggs and such. Give it some time before you get to worried. They will probably start laying normal ones soon
There are more opinions about humidity around here than there are members, but dont get to carried away. To much humidity and they will drown when they are trying to break out.
Yes you can eat them when they dont lay good anymore. People call them stewing hens. They are mainly good for chicken noodle soup or chicken and dumplings. A lot of people put them in crockpots for a day to make them tender. If I had to choose chickens I would get more than one kind, as long as...
I just read a post about bantam eggs hatching at 19 days. I have never read this anywhere before, is it true?
If it is true is lockdown 3 days like standards, so they would go in lockdown on day 16?
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We did our outside run with the regular chicken wire 6ft high. Then ran the chicken wire across the roof also. Then we took the 1/2 by 1/2 and buried it one foot down towing out so that if anything trys to dig down from the outside they will start scraping the fence. It runs from down one feet...
You should have 4 sq feet per bird inside and 10 sq feet per bird in outside run, but if they get to free range alot the outside run space isnt as important